[TAG] Which process wrote that line into syslog?

[Ville]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:35:49AM +0300, you [Ville] wrote:
> > I'll try getsockopt(SO_PEERCRED) on socketpair() vs.
> > socket()-bind()-listen() a la
> > 
> > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/rzab6/uafunix.htm
> > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/rzab6/uafunix.htm
> > 
> > and let you know.
> 
> I believe the crucial difference is explained in an syslogd.c comment
> 
>          * Changed: unixm is gone, since we now use datagram unix sockets.
>          * Hence we recv() from unix sockets directly (rather than
>          * first accept()ing connections on them), so there's no need 
>          * for separate book-keeping.  --okir
> 
> That's probably why it doesn't work.

More precisely, the boulder.ibm.com example does
  sd = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
whereas syslogd.c does
  socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
.